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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Armenia in El Salvador

Posted by admin on February 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.7872S, -89.4963WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Armenia in El Salvador. The epicenter was at a depth of 118.8 km (74 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/01/18 / 2018-01-12 22:11:19 / January 12, 2018 @ 10:11 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:11:19 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cpsh. Unique identifier: us2000cpsh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -89.4963° West, 13.7872° North, depth 118.8 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from San Salvador (c. 526 000 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Soyapango (c. 329 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 176 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mejicanos (c. 160 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Santa Tecla (c. 124 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Apopa (c. 112 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Delgado (c. 71 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis Jilotepeque, Sensuntepeque, Ipala.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km N of Armenia, El Salvador. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.4963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7872° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km N of Armenia, El Salvador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-12 22:11:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 00:29:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 354 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cpsh Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpsh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cpsh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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